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Mount Logan in the Saint Elias Mountains of Yukon is the highest peak of Canada. The following sortable table comprises the 150 highest mountain peaks of Canada with at least 500 metres (1640 feet) of topographic prominence. [a] The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
Mount Logan (/ ˈ l oʊ ɡ ən / LOH-ghən) is the highest mountain in Canada and the second-highest peak in North America after Denali.The mountain was named after Sir William Edmond Logan, a Canadian geologist and founder of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC).
Mount Saint Elias (Was'eitushaa also designated Boundary Peak 186), [2] [4] the second-highest mountain in both Canada and the United States, stands on the Yukon and Alaska border about 26 miles (42 km) southwest of Mount Logan, [5] the highest mountain in Canada.
The first table below ranks the 100 highest major summits of Canada by elevation. The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings. [2] [3] The second table below ranks the 50 most prominent summits of Canada.
The highest summit completely within British Columbia is Mount Waddington (4,019 m (13,186 ft), [14) in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains ^B Because it is on the Continental Divide of the Americas , Mount Columbia is in British Columbia as well as Alberta.
The following sortable table comprises the 403 mountain peaks of greater North America [1] with at least 3000 meters (9843 feet) of elevation and at least 500 meters (1640 feet) of topographic prominence. [2] The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
Mountain/Peak metres feet Mountain range Notes Mount Columbia: 3,747 12,293: Winston Churchill Range : Second highest in Canadian Rockies Twin Peaks massif
Mount Logan in the Saint Elias Mountains of Yukon is the highest peak of Canada. The following sortable table comprises the 150 most topographically prominent mountain peaks of Canada. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a ...